The songs recorded on this CD are based on the poems by these two medieval poets from Cordoba. Using Andalusí music from the same period in history the poems have been adapted to existing melodies. The poetry itself has survived in the Andalusí nubas from Morocco, and anonymous texts have been replaced by the words written by Walladah and Ibn Zaydún. In this way we have poetry and music from the 11th century using the "contrafacta" technique, common in Al-Andalus at the time. The result is a collection of the most beautiful melodies from the repertoire, with new verses in the same rhyme and metre as the ones they replace.